Our Common Story: Bibliography

Below are a number of books, articles, curricula, and websites that present Our Common Story.  This is hardly an exhaustive list.  The list is broken up into “Introductions to Big History,” “Curricula,” “Interpreting Our Common Story,” “For Children,” and “Metaphysical, Philosophical and Theological Integrations.”  Send additional submissions through the Contact page.

Our Common Story: Introductions to Big History

Berry, Thomas. Dream of the Earth, The. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1983.

Berry, Thomas, and Brian Swimme. Universe Story, The: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era. San Francisco, CA: Harper, 1992.

Bryson, Bill. A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition. New York: Broadway Books, [2003] 2005.

Chaisson, Eric. Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.

———. Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.

Christian, David. Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

Dawkins, Richard. The Ancestors' Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

Gonick, Larry. Cartoon History of the Universe 1 Vol. 1-7. New York: Broadway, 2000.

Liebes, Sidney, Elisabet Sahtouris, and Brian Swimme. Walk through Time: From Stardust to Us. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 1998.

McNeill, J. Robert, and William H. McNeill. The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003.

Miller, James B. The Epic of Evolution: Science and Religion in Dialogue. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2004.

Ponting, Clive. A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations. New York: Penguin, 2007.

Primack, Joel R., and Nancy Ellen Abrams. The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos. New York: Riverhead, 2006.

Schrödinger, Edwin. "What Is Life?"  http://whatislife.stanford.edu/Homepage/LoCo_files/What-is-Life.pdf .

Schrödinger, Edwin, and Roger Penrose. What Is Life? With "Mind and Matter". New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Schulman, Eric. A Briefer History of Time: St. Martin's Press, 1990.

Sissons, Terry Herman. The Big Bang to Now: A Time Line. North Charleston, SC: BookSurge, 2006.

Spier, Fred. The Structure of Big History: From the Big Bang until Today. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1996.

Curricula

Chaisson, Eric. "Cosmic Evolution: An Interdisciplinary Approach." Tufts University, http://www.tufts.edu/as/wright_center/cosmic_evolution/ .

Christian, David, Edmund Burke III, and Ross Dunn. "World History for Us All." San Diego State University, http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu .

Grassie, William. "A Teachable Moment: Our Common Story." grassie.net, http://www.grassie.net/articles/2009_Teachable_Moment.html .

Goodenough, Ursula, Claude Bernard, and Michael Wysession. "Epic of Evolution: Life, the Earth, and the Cosmos." Washington University in St. Louis, http://shiro.wustl.edu/210A/index.html .

Rodrigue, Barry, and Dan Stasko. "A Big History Directory." World History Connected 6, no. 3 (2009). http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/6.3/rodrigue.html

Institute, SETI. "Voyages through Time." SETI Institute, http://www.voyagesthroughtime.org/ .

Environment, Economics and Conflict

Cobb Jr., John B., and Herman Daly. For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989.

Beinhocker, Eric D. The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics. Cambridge Harvard Business Press, 2006.

Dyer, Gwynne. War: The Lethal Custom. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1985, 2004.

McNeill, J.Robert. Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2000.

Interpreting Our Common Story

Dowd, Michael. Thank God for Evolution! New York: Viking, 2007.

_____. "Thank God for Evolution."  http://thankgodforevolution.com/.

Grassie, William J. Reinventing Nature: Science Narratives as Myths for an Endangered Planet. Philadelphia: Ph.D. Dissertation, Temple University Department of Religion, 1994.

———. "Universal Reason: Science, Religion and the Foundation of Civil Societies." Metanexus Institute, http://www.metanexus.net/Magazine/tabid/68/id/9301/Default.aspx .

———. "Biocultural Evolution in the 21st Century: The Evolutionary Role of Religion." Metanexus Institute, http://www.metanexus.net/Magazine/tabid/68/id/9301/Default.aspx .

———. "Science, Semiotics, and the Sacred." In Spiritual Information, edited by Charles L. Harper Jr., 39-43. Philadelphia: Templeton Foundation Press, 2005.

———. "Toward a Constructive Theology of Evolution." AFT, http://www.grassie.net/articles/2003_theologyofevolution.html .

———. "Re-Reading Economics: In Search of New Economic Metaphors for Biological Evolution." Metanexus Global Spiral,no. 2 (2007), http://www.metanexus.net/Magazine/ArticleDetail/tabid/68/id/9932/Default.aspx .

———. "Teaching the History of Nature: Towards an Integrated Science Curriculum." Metanexus Institute, http://www.metanexus.net/magazine/tabid/68/id/10326/Default.aspx .

———. "Entangled Narratives: Competing Visions of the Good Lie." Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities XXXIV (1&2), http://www.grassie.net/articles/2008_entangled_narratives.html .

———. "Metanexus 2007: The Challenge Ahead." Zygon, 43:2, 297-306, http://www.grassie.net/articles/2007_Metanexus.html .

———. "Post-Darwinism: The New Synthesis." Metanexus Institute, http://www.grassie.net/articles/2009_postdarwinism.html .

———. "A Thought Experiment: Envisioning a Civilization Recovery Plan." Metanexus, http://www.metanexus.net/magazine/tabid/68/id/10943/Default.aspx .

———. "Millennialism at the Singularity: Reflections on Metaphors, Meanings, and the Limits of Ray Kurzweil’s Exponential Logic." Metanexus, http://www.metanexus.net/magazine/tabid/68/id/10926/Default.aspx .

Goodenough, Ursula. The Sacred Depths of Nature. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Haught, John. God after Darwin: A Theology of Evolution. Boulder, CO: Westview, 2000.

Rolston, Holmes. Genes, Genesis, and God: Values and Their Origins in Natural and Human History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Rue, Loyal D. Everybody's Story : Wising up to the Epic of Evolution, Suny Series in Philosophy and Biology. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000.

Smith, Christian. Moral, Believing Animals: Human Personhood and Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

For Children and their Adults

Dowd, Michael, and Connie Barlow. "The Great Story."  http://www.thegreatstory.org/ .

Morgan, Jennifer, and Dana Lynne Andersen. Born with a Bang: Book One: The Universe Tells Our Cosmic Story. 3 vols. Vol. 1. Nevada City, CA: Dawn Publications, 2002.

———. From Lava to Life: Book Two: The Universe Tells Our Earth Story. Nevada City, CA: Dawn Publications, 2003.

———. Mammals Who Morph: Book Three: The Universe Tells Our Evolution Story. Nevada City, CA: Dawn Publications, 2006.

Metaphysical and Theological Integrations (Teilhard and Whitehead)

Teilhard, Pierre. Hymn of the Universe. New York: Harper & Row, 1965.

———. The Vision of the Past. Translated by J.M. Cohen. New York: Harper & Row, 1966.

———. Science and Christ. Translated by Rene Hague. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.

———. Writings in Time of War. Translated by Rene Hague. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.

———. Human Energy. Translated by J.M. Cohen. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1969.

———. Building the Earth. New York: Avon Books, 1969.

———. Christianity and Evolution. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.

———. Toward the Future. Translated by Rene Hague. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.

———. The Phenomenon of Man. New York: Harper, [1955] 1959.

———. The Divine Milieu. Translated by Bernard Wall. New York: Harper, [1957] 1960.

———. Activation of Energy. Translated by Rene Hague. London: Collins, [1963] 1970.

———. Heart of Matter. New York: Harcourt Brace Javanovich, [1976] 1978.

Whitehead, Alfred North. Religion in the Making. New York: Macmillan, 1926.

———. The Concept of Nature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1926.

———. Science and the Modern World. New York: Free Press, [1925] 1967.

———. Process and Reality. New York: Free Press, [1929]1978.

———. The Aims of Education. New York: Free Press, [1929] 1957.

———. Adventures of Ideas. New York: Free Press, [1933] 1967.

———. Modes of Thought. New York: Capricorn, [1938] 1958